Re:the 1999 Tornado killed because it was so huge
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I have also lived in Tulsa my entire life, and I agree with every one of your statements.
the tornado hit the Arkansas River and went back up into the wall cloud. It touched down again across town.
I just want to point out to people who might not know that tornados DO have a difficult time crossing bodies of water. Tulsa has a dam on the Arkansas river just to keep water in it at all times. Downtown Tulsa is built directly East of the river and (AFAIK) has never been hit by a tornado.
The storm that created the tornado in Moore this year fizzled out as it reached the river, just as the 1999 storm did. Even if a storm is especially forboding, it always dies down as it reaches the river and might build back up again a few miles outside the city.
1) Performance will be an issue if you upgrade from 4.x to a current version of Netscape. Phoenix might be a better solution. There's Opera, too. What kind of processors/OS are you running?
2) Banking sites can usually be tricked with a simple change in the Useragent string in Mozilla/Netscape. Are you sure you need IE?
Defenestration:... 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window.... 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux).
Are you really saying that since they own THEIR network, they have the 'right' to tell me what to do with MY network? Here is a definition of Natural Rights for you to study.
If they could even tell I'm using more than one computer (which they can't), the only 'right' they have is to cancel my service. I then have the 'right' to go somewhere else and they have the 'right' to go out of business. Free markets rule like that.
I understand the word perfectly well, both it's derivation and it's current negative connotation. It more accurately means 'ruler', as it is derived from the Latin 'rex, regis' which means 'King'.
What I was pointing out is this:
Firstly, I expect American bureaucrats not to refer to themselves as 'Kings'. Just as they like to claim that they are not 'Imperialists', I would expect US history to have taught elected members of a Constitutional republic that kings are not particularly popular here in the colonies. If you are not from the US, believe me: no one here uses the word in a positive light.
Secondly, I expect the Bush 'regime', which takes every opportunity to use the word in a negative sense when referring to Iraq, not to describe their own administration in the same terms, especially not in the same sentence, despite the rhetorical benefits. Since the US take every opportunity to decry the 'moral equivalence' argument between them and the 'evildoers', I would expect them to make at least a minimal effort to distance themselves from those on whom they wish to cast doubt.
I remember seeing about a year ago a news conference in which Donald Rumsfield referred to his administration as a 'regime'. He said something to the effect of "Saddam's regime is doing blah blah, and this regime won't let him get away with it". It gives you a new perspective on the US government to hear things like that.
I wouldn't know where to look to back this up, but it's actually true. I don't suppose C-Span keeps searchable transcripts...
I just saw a Lego commercial on TV. What the hell has happened to them? They used to be fun toys when they were just multi-colored blocks. Now, they're 'action figures' that don't even come apart! $100 gets you a pre-molded 'toy' that might have a few pieces that you can move around. Yay...
Who had Capsula growing up? What about Erector Sets? Hell, even Voltron was more educational than Legos are now. Don't waste your money.
Here's the pillar of 'Change!' Nathan Rothschild himself, With whose fame every bourse in the universe rings; The first Baron Juif; by the grace of his pelf, Not 'The King of the Jews,' but the Jew of the kings. WILLIAM THACKERAY
Thanks for your help. I guess you've seen that the problem was a simple command-line switch that I neglected. After posting my first post in this thread, I checked the mplayer site and noticed that 0.90rc5 was the latest release. I don't know anything about NetBSD package versioning, but I don't understand how you could have rc14. The version number I gave you is not the package version, but the version directly from mplayer. I assume it means it was compiled with GCC 2.95.4. Thanks again for your help.
Maybe scaling was the wrong word. I don't have xv, but fullscreen works in both MPlayer and Xine. I am impressed with Xine because I can resize the window and the video changes with it, always very smoothly. With MPlayer, when I resize the window, the video remains the same size.
I don't want to use Slashdot as a technical support list, but suffice it to say that I've spent more time working on this already than most desktop users ever would and neither program has all the basic features that WMP does right out of the box.
This doesn't mean that they both aren't 'decent' media players. They are. I can see how it would be frustrating for an enduser to be given two programs to use that, if combined, wouldn't just be 'decent', but much better than anything available on Windows.
Maybe from an OSS perspective, but, from a "desktop enduser" or a Small/Medium Business perspective Mozilla is a "revolutionary" browser that's only used by a small percentage of people.
If even the largest, most successful OSS project is only seen as a viable option by a small percentage of users, how can a myriad of smaller projects even have a chance at attracting users to Linux?
I can speak to this since I watched a DVD just last night on Linux.
First I tried Xine. I always try Xine first because the scaling works, while mplayer doesn't. The disk drive started spinning and Xine locked up. I've found that it does this with about 20% of the DVDs in my collection. I think it is a font issue, or maybe it doesn't support some extra menu features or something.
I switched to MPlayer. Like I said before, I don't get scaling with mplayer, but it plays almost any DVD I throw at it. Half way through the movie, my crappy (Aureal) sound card started corrupting the audio ever-so-slightly. The sound would vacillate between working perfectly and just being slightly annoying. Xine has never done this.
The movie was viewable, but not perfect. Don't get me wrong. I think Linux is fantastic. I can't even count the number of stupid problems I used to have with Windows and I'm not going back. I can, however, understand the argument presented here that there are too many 'slightly-less-than-perfect' solutions and no '$100 but it will work' solutions for Linux.
That's another reason I'm thinking about getting into the PBX industry. PBX resellers have been making way more money than they should for a long time. By now, they're all basically PC's anyways. I'd be able to sell IP phones for half the price of those stupid, impossible-to-program PBX's and still make as much as I do consulting.
Modchips aren't illegal because of the DMCA. They fall under the 'interoperability' exception.
Modchips are illegal because they contain a snippet of copyrighted MS BIOS code that is used to boot the machine. Distributing this code is illegal under regular copyright laws, even in other countries without DMCA-like laws.
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I have also lived in Tulsa my entire life, and I agree with every one of your statements.
the tornado hit the Arkansas River and went back up into the wall cloud. It touched down again across town.
I just want to point out to people who might not know that tornados DO have a difficult time crossing bodies of water. Tulsa has a dam on the Arkansas river just to keep water in it at all times. Downtown Tulsa is built directly East of the river and (AFAIK) has never been hit by a tornado.
The storm that created the tornado in Moore this year fizzled out as it reached the river, just as the 1999 storm did. Even if a storm is especially forboding, it always dies down as it reaches the river and might build back up again a few miles outside the city.
That's pretty funny... one of the few Latin sigs that I can translate with the seven brain cells I still have that remember how to decline.
That's a solution for retarded admins.
He needs a solution for retarded software.
More retarded software is not going to work.
1) Performance will be an issue if you upgrade from 4.x to a current version of Netscape. Phoenix might be a better solution. There's Opera, too. What kind of processors/OS are you running?
2) Banking sites can usually be tricked with a simple change in the Useragent string in Mozilla/Netscape. Are you sure you need IE?
Defenestration: ... 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. ... 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux).
God forbid anyone at the 'defense' department actually 'defend' the US instead of creating more terrorists by occupying other countries.
There's also the Symbol NetVision Phone available now. Hopefully they're compatible in more than name only.
If they could even tell I'm using more than one computer (which they can't), the only 'right' they have is to cancel my service. I then have the 'right' to go somewhere else and they have the 'right' to go out of business. Free markets rule like that.
I understand the word perfectly well, both it's derivation and it's current negative connotation. It more accurately means 'ruler', as it is derived from the Latin 'rex, regis' which means 'King'.
What I was pointing out is this:
Firstly, I expect American bureaucrats not to refer to themselves as 'Kings'. Just as they like to claim that they are not 'Imperialists', I would expect US history to have taught elected members of a Constitutional republic that kings are not particularly popular here in the colonies. If you are not from the US, believe me: no one here uses the word in a positive light.
Secondly, I expect the Bush 'regime', which takes every opportunity to use the word in a negative sense when referring to Iraq, not to describe their own administration in the same terms, especially not in the same sentence, despite the rhetorical benefits. Since the US take every opportunity to decry the 'moral equivalence' argument between them and the 'evildoers', I would expect them to make at least a minimal effort to distance themselves from those on whom they wish to cast doubt.
I wouldn't know where to look to back this up, but it's actually true. I don't suppose C-Span keeps searchable transcripts...
Who had Capsula growing up? What about Erector Sets? Hell, even Voltron was more educational than Legos are now. Don't waste your money.
Here's the pillar of 'Change!' Nathan Rothschild himself,
With whose fame every bourse in the universe rings;
The first Baron Juif; by the grace of his pelf,
Not 'The King of the Jews,' but the Jew of the kings.
WILLIAM THACKERAY
God, that's scary...
I can see why you'd post that anonymously.
Thanks for your help. I guess you've seen that the problem was a simple command-line switch that I neglected. After posting my first post in this thread, I checked the mplayer site and noticed that 0.90rc5 was the latest release. I don't know anything about NetBSD package versioning, but I don't understand how you could have rc14. The version number I gave you is not the package version, but the version directly from mplayer. I assume it means it was compiled with GCC 2.95.4. Thanks again for your help.
Well, I added the -zoom option to the command line and scaling works fine. RTFM, I guess...
Debian Woody, ATI AIW Rage 128, no DRM or Xv or any of that good stuff :)
I don't want to use Slashdot as a technical support list, but suffice it to say that I've spent more time working on this already than most desktop users ever would and neither program has all the basic features that WMP does right out of the box.
This doesn't mean that they both aren't 'decent' media players. They are. I can see how it would be frustrating for an enduser to be given two programs to use that, if combined, wouldn't just be 'decent', but much better than anything available on Windows.
If even the largest, most successful OSS project is only seen as a viable option by a small percentage of users, how can a myriad of smaller projects even have a chance at attracting users to Linux?
First I tried Xine. I always try Xine first because the scaling works, while mplayer doesn't. The disk drive started spinning and Xine locked up. I've found that it does this with about 20% of the DVDs in my collection. I think it is a font issue, or maybe it doesn't support some extra menu features or something.
I switched to MPlayer. Like I said before, I don't get scaling with mplayer, but it plays almost any DVD I throw at it. Half way through the movie, my crappy (Aureal) sound card started corrupting the audio ever-so-slightly. The sound would vacillate between working perfectly and just being slightly annoying. Xine has never done this.
The movie was viewable, but not perfect. Don't get me wrong. I think Linux is fantastic. I can't even count the number of stupid problems I used to have with Windows and I'm not going back. I can, however, understand the argument presented here that there are too many 'slightly-less-than-perfect' solutions and no '$100 but it will work' solutions for Linux.
That's another reason I'm thinking about getting into the PBX industry. PBX resellers have been making way more money than they should for a long time. By now, they're all basically PC's anyways. I'd be able to sell IP phones for half the price of those stupid, impossible-to-program PBX's and still make as much as I do consulting.
Of course that has more to do with the type of female roommates I have had.
Microso... oh, nevermind.
If there's anything the Debian crew would be loathe to give up it's their "is-it-legal-?" discussions.
Modchips are illegal because they contain a snippet of copyrighted MS BIOS code that is used to boot the machine. Distributing this code is illegal under regular copyright laws, even in other countries without DMCA-like laws.
VNC is the answer. Your boss is a moron if the only reason is "it's not MS".
stupid web forms. It's EO 12958, "Classified National Security Information".